Chapter 222: Investigation (4th Update)

The river in the territory of the Holman Kingdom is called the Longjiang River, because its river is like a giant dragon coiling around the land of Holman, so it is named the Longjiang River!

When Locke and the others arrived on the side of the Longjiang River, they directly and rudely occupied a wharf as a place for their own training of sailors. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

After all, they don't know how to measure the hydrology themselves, and if they have to find someone to measure the hydrology, and they are doing some things, it will take a lot of time, and Locke doesn't want to delay it for that long.

So the best way is to directly requisition the largest wharf in this area, which will be built after hydrographic surveys, so Locke and they also save a lot of trouble.

The draft of the wharf is also better than that of other parts of the river, and the traffic is also good, which can facilitate the transportation of Locke and them, in fact, the most important thing is that everything here is ready-made, and if there is anything missing in the future, Locke and they can just make up for it, and they don't need to start from scratch.

Now that Locke has chosen the location, the next step is to exchange warships and recruit sailors!

Before exchanging warships, Locke still had to measure the depth of the river, and only by knowing the depth of the water could he determine the tonnage of warships to be exchanged.

The draft of ships of different types and tonnages is different, and if the water depth of the river is not enough, and you exchange the ships of large tonnage for them, then in the end these ships will not be useful.

It has to be adapted to local conditions!

Ships are divided into two categories: combat ships and auxiliary combat ships. Combat ships are divided into surface combat ships and underwater combat ships according to their navigation status.

Now Locke has to choose, and it must be a surface combat ship!

And there is a difference between ships and ships, ships and boats, with a displacement of more than 600 tons is called a ship, and a displacement of less than 600 tons is called a boat!

After investigation, Locke and the others found that the maximum tonnage of ships that Longjiang River can withstand cannot exceed 6,000 tons, otherwise it will be easy to hit the bottom, which means that Locke and they cannot be equipped with large ships, but can only equip some small and medium-sized ships.

However, against the naval army of this era, even if they are equipped with ships of primary and secondary schools, they have an absolute advantage in displacement and tonnage.

Not to mention the gap between the various weapons on the ships, most of the water battles in this era are still in the era of broadside warfare, that is, they basically have no other means of combat except for a small number of long-range weapons such as arrows, and they can only collide with small ships with large ships, or collide with each other, or two ships meet each other, and the sailors are close to each other!

It is precisely because of this form that water warfare at this time was more popular with fire, and ships in this era even appeared in various forms of ships such as sub-mother ships.

Moreover, in the era of cold weapons, most of the power of ships relied on manpower and wind power, and the speed of warships was relatively slow.

The reason why the navy of the Southern Alliance has been able to rise is related to their large number of warships, and the other is because they have begun to develop some firearms for naval warfare.

It was precisely because of the advanced nature of their weapons and equipment, coupled with the large number of fleets, that they were the first to destroy the pirates in their territory and defeat the navies of several nearby kingdoms.

Without those competitors, the navy of the Southern Alliance will naturally develop faster and faster, and the development of the navy has also given the Southern Alliance the strength to plunder wealth, so it can be said that the navy is the confidence of the expansion of the Southern Alliance!

However, as the expansion deepened, they were no longer satisfied with the coastal areas, so now their army is also in the midst of a crazy expansion!

The ambitions of the Southern Alliance are very big, and all the kingdoms are also in their eyes, but no one dares to be the first bird, and now the Southern Alliance is in the limelight, and no one dares to provoke them.

And those guys in the Southern Alliance are also very smart, those big kingdoms, or kingdoms with allies and good relations, they will put them first, and eat the kingdoms that are close to them, and at the same time the status is not too high, and the relationship with other kingdoms is not good enough.

After slowly developing and strengthening his strength, the current Southern Alliance is already a giant-level existence, and waiting for a few kingdoms to join forces is not necessarily his opponent!

Locke didn't know what the so-called firearms used by the Confederate Navy looked like, and what would the most primitive firearms of this era look like?

He didn't think about it, as long as he got his own sailor, would he still be afraid of the Southern Alliance? Their firearms, in front of the Senna sailors, were toys.

There are various types of warships in the arms system, first of all, the aircraft carrier Locke is not to be considered, the Longjiang River will definitely not be able to accommodate it, and large combat ships such as battleships and cruisers will not be used, the depth of the Longjiang River makes it difficult for them to move forward, and they may sink at any time!

The tonnage of frigates is generally between 3,000 and 6,000 tons, while destroyers are relatively large, with general displacement tonnage between 4,500 and 8,000 tons.

According to the warships that can withstand the displacement of 6,000 tons on the Longjiang River, Locke can only choose these two types of ships at most. And he can only choose some small destroyers, otherwise it is not very safe.

These are the deficiencies of the innate conditions, if the Holman Kingdom is near the sea, Locke directly makes a few aircraft carriers and then pairs them with some frigates, destroyers and some other ships, isn't it perfect?

But Locke doesn't complain, these ships are enough to deal with these backward guys!

For smaller ships, Locke planned to equip some frigates, minelayers, and rescue boats for other purposes for the Senna Mariners.

And how many ships these ships need to be equipped depends entirely on how many sailors Locke can recruit and train, as long as there are enough sailors and soldiers, it will be easy for Locke to get a few more warships.

Well, now what they have to do is to start recruiting sailor soldiers!

Locke's idea of establishing a sailor had already spread out, and before Locke was still in Seine City and had not yet set off to come to the Longjiang River, he had already released the news, so that those who were familiar with the nature of water and wanted to join the army would know the news, so that they could come here to find him to sign up for the army.

Now in the Kingdom of Holman, it is a very honorable thing to be able to join the Senna Army!

So as soon as Locke and the others arrived on the banks of the Longjiang River and began to recruit sailors, the recruiting office was immediately surrounded by water!

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